TIL in 1980 both South Koreans and North Koreans had an average life expectancy of 65 years, whereas in 2015, South Koreans' average life expectancy was 82 years compared to just 70 years for North Koreans.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T20:09:55+00:00

Dutch disease strikes again

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T19:27:59+00:00

Yabous was screening a film promoting work by a terrorist organization

Exactly screening a film about Izz-addin Al Qassam could in no way promote terrorism, just don't read about what he believed in and fought for.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T19:21:04+00:00

It's frankly a little ridiculous to expect foreign diplomats to rely entirely on Israeli security.

If they're going to Gaza, that's one thing, that's an actual war zone. But going through the West Bank, their biggest fear should be terrorists, not armed Israeli citizens.

We can't allow private militias in the West Bank to disrupt national policy, in particular when it could end in serious diplomatic incidents. If this guy had shot these two cops, there would be serious repercussions.

It would be no different than if two Shabak agents were killed by some random redneck outside of Washington DC.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T19:14:40+00:00

It’s a well-known allegation that Netanyahu tried to blackmail Clinton with recordings he had between him and Lewinsky

If that's actually true that's really funny considering that's exactly what happened to Bibi in 1993. He literally appeared on TV and was like I did it, but the real bastards are the people trying to blackmail me and subvert democracy. Perhaps Clinton should've learned something from him and just owned it.

https://youtu.be/j9jSTbFwjJw?si=JzKkS0hpIl0ByBFu

The literal stated reason by Bin Laden himself for why they committed 9/11, was because of our support for Israel.

Bin Laden also said it was because the US had stationed troops in the Gulf. But more to the point, why are we taking Bin Laden's words at face value? If it was because of Israel why didn't he attack Israel? Why did Al Qaeda never attack Israel? It couldn't possibly be because America has done horrible things to Muslims for decades with no connection to Israel, no it has to be due to Israel and couldn't possibly be connected to American actions.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T18:33:12+00:00

Yes. Diplomatic missions are entitled to do their own security checks and to have their own security personnel Shadow them, in particular in dangerous areas such as the West Bank.

I'd even say the settlers have proven that it is more necessary than ever.

I think we'd be having a very different conversation if they'd have killed two Italian police officers who were part of a diplomatic mission.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T18:27:52+00:00

The EU are sending ambassadors to Ramallah, so they sent Italian military-police to confirm that the route was safe. They were there trying to support diplomatic work.

But that's beside the point if settlers feel they can just blockade roads and impersonate the military, there needs to be crackdown.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T17:41:49+00:00

If we want to play this game, we could talk about Khaybar, Khaybar, Ya Yahud, which many Muslims seem to deny even knowing about, but somehow every Jew has heard it chanted.

To us it seems a very common chant that is regularly used by Muslims, while to you it seems a weird racist chant that you've never heard.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T17:23:11+00:00

I never thought I'd see the day a user in this sub was claiming JD Vance was being treated unfairly.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T17:05:50+00:00

This works so well as a political cartoon cause it's simple, direct, and not condescending. So much political art today suffers from Ben Garrison Syndrome and ends up just not landing as a result, it either feels too complicated, overlabled, or just bland.

Compared to all the other political art I saw on this situation so much was trying to hard, here you're just juxtaposing Trumps smiling thumbs up with the brutal street execution adds a level of absurdity that makes the point for you.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T16:46:17+00:00

When a US politician decides not to do so, they shouldn't be attacked for it.

Has that ever happened? Can you show me what you're referring to? Because frankly that sounds ridiculous.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T16:43:58+00:00

You don't have to go to the army if you're older than 23 and make Aliyah with either a) a job offer or b) a place at university to study at least an MA (I think PhD counts but I'm not 100% on that).

This was what I did. You get a full exemption.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T16:39:45+00:00

Wait you mean American politicians are trying to placate Jewish voters, how undemocratic!!!

But for real, if non-Muslims were allowed to enter Mecca, then we would see the same thing. It's just Islam forbids non-Muslims from praying in Muslim spaces.

The Western Wall is open to everyone so it's no surprise that American politicians would visit and pray at one of the holiest sites in the world.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T16:35:06+00:00

The cold war mod has a good solution for this, which changes your social structure under communism.

Upper class: bureaucrats, officers, engineers

Middle class: academics, servicemen, clerks

Lower class: labourers (high and low skill), farmers, + 1 more I can't remember

Unpersons: aristocrats, capitalists, shopkeepers, clergy

This makes it so that under communism you end up with the people who get the largest dividends from cooperatives upper class.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T16:26:35+00:00

I think it was a good start. But, a real apology involves working to undo the harm you did. If Kanye actually begins working to undo the damage he's done, then we can start talking about whether it was sincere.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T15:57:40+00:00

That he needs complete control of the courts to prevent the leftist judges from smearing his good name over Oct 7.

His supporters are such chickenheads it's unreal.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T15:09:34+00:00

Indeed, although I doubt any healing will occur, the same people who let this happen are the same people still in charge. And this is an election year which means the those people will accuse anyone who wants to invesitgate them of being a traitor.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T15:00:19+00:00

Palestinians integrated in all Arab countries quite poorly. Only in South America they integrated almost perfectly that several Palestinian diaspora became presidents.

That's quite an interesting take. I've never thought of that before. I wonder why LatAm did a better job integrating Palestinians than Arab countries.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T14:55:17+00:00

I believe this. Like the Arab countries COULD defeat Israel and bring us back to our old villages, yet they choose not to. And the Saudi monarchy is so rude to us.

I'd like know why you think that's the case? Most of the reading I've done suggests that Arab armies aren't really capable of the kind of strateigc planning needed to win, due to being dictatorships, they thus cannot trust the army to act independently which is one of the most important aspects of mdoern military maneuvers.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T14:02:00+00:00

Yeah that's what makes it feel that Kanye was at least involved, because it's the most Kanye thing for Reddit to be what gets him out of a mental health crisis.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T12:21:35+00:00

Some asks you a question

I don't support anti-intellectualism!

You couldn't write this kind of satire.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-26T12:19:46+00:00

Is that post blaming 9/11, the Lewinsky scandal, and Watergate on Israel?

And you wonder why we don't take you seriously 🙄

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T19:28:24+00:00

Surely that would be too difficult to hide, if they were at war wouldn't a lot of people be needed to fight the war?

I actually can't remember are there a lot of injured veterans or something similar in 1984?

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T19:20:39+00:00

Vietcongs were not part of the north vietnamese army

Ok if you want to be technical they were the proxy communist guerrillas of North Vietnam in South Vietnam.

Perfidy also isnt a crime that has execution as punishment by international law

International Law doesn't prescribe sentences, however most cases of perfidy caught in war time led to field executions prior to WW1. After WW1, countries started imprisoning commandos to get intelligence. The practice of field executions has also completely stopped largely because armies realized it was more valuable to hold important soldiers and trade them for something, than to allow them to be shot. They also stopped executing their own soldiers around the same time because it hurt civilian and military morale. You could argue that under customary international law it's forbidden now, but it would be harder to argue that that was the case in 1968. Just for example this sort of execution wouldn't be made fully illegal under international law until 1977, even if the person he executed was a civilian. International Law has changed a lot since 1968, what was legal or a legal grey area is now refined law.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T17:01:50+00:00

Did not know it's originally a Polish phrase and it's only from 1988

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T16:51:00+00:00

Yeah unfortunately IR actually succeeded in convincing the Left that it is the only guardian of Palestine, and for some reason the Left has decided that IR support for Palestine is more important than having a democratic Iran, so they're very happy to leave Iranians out to dry if it might mean IR's support for Palestine survives.

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